There is a Food Labelling Review taking place in Australia at the moment and it's looking at GM food labelling.  
Regularly, in surveys, 90% of Australians say they want ingredients derived from genetically engineered crops and processes to be labelled on food - if you're one of the 90% this is your chance.
 
Many people want to be able to choose whether to buy it or not (for various reasons), and at what price.  We have some GM labelling, but most GM ingredients slip through loopholes. Currently although up to 70% of processed food contains GM ingredients almost none legally require labelling.
 
You only have until 20th November to ask the Food Labelling Review Panel to LABEL ALL GM FOOD.

Use the form below to send your thoughts directly to the review panel at FSANZ.

For more information check out:

1. Current GM labelling Standards
2. Eating in the dark – Greenpeace report on the Australian food regulator
3. Review Terms of Reference
4. MADGE - Mothers Are Demystifying Genetic Engineering

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Message: * Dear FSANZ review board I have deep concerns about the level of accurate labelling of GM products in food products available in Australia. Currently although up to 70% of processed food contains GM ingredients almost none legally require labelling. Oils, sugars and starches from GM crops; products from animals fed GM food; GM additives, processing aids and flavourings; and food from street vendors, takeaways and restaurants do not need to be labelled Doctors specialising in environmental medicine say there is a link between GM foods and illness, and several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food consumption. I am shocked and concerns that FSANZ does not undertake nor advocate for any independently tested of GM foods. The argument put forward by FSANZ is that "It is the responsibility of companies that have developed GM foods to demonstrate the safety of that food and to supply FSANZ with the raw data from scientific studies to prove this." This is like asking tobacco companies to check that smoking is safe. There aren’t any GM crops with health benefits, high yields, salt or drought tolerance. Most crops are genetically modified either to create their own poisons to kill insects or to survive when sprayed with weedkiller. I ask you, as the agency responsible, to LABEL ALL GM FOOD in Australia.

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